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Contact & Representation
Book Clubs:
I'd love to speak to your book club, either live or via conference call or Skype. Please email me at almakatsu@gmail.com with a couple dates/times to choose from.
Literary representation:
Peter Steinberg
The Steinberg Agency
US publicity:
Simon & Schuster/Gallery
Mary McCue
t: 212-698-4792
UK publicity:
Random House UK/Century
Ruth Waldram
t: 011 + 44 + 020 7840 8616
Australia publicity:
Random House Australia
Shannon Lane
t: +61 2 8923 9804
Foreign rights:
Intercontinental Literary Agency
Nicki Kennedy
Sam Edenborough
t: 011 + 44 + 020 7379 6611
The Grayhawk Agency
Gray Tan
t: 011 + 886 + 2 27059231
Film rights:
Matthew Snyder
CAA Los Angeles
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Short bio: Alma Katsu is a writer living in the Washington, DC area with her husband, musician Bruce Katsu. She graduated from Brandeis University, where she studied writing with novelist John Irving and children's book author Margaret Rey, and received her MA in Fiction from the Johns Hopkins University. The Taker is her first novel and is published by Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster.
Medium bio: Alma Katsu is a writer living in the Washington, DC area with her husband, musician Bruce Katsu. She was born in Fairbanks, Alaska but spent most of her childhood in Massachusetts, in the middle of the area where colonial history was made. She started writing as a stringer for local newspapers while still in high school and continued as a freelance writer through her college years at Brandeis University, mainly in music journalism. She moved to Washington, DC to take a job with the federal government and stopped writing fiction for about twelve years to concentrate on her career. She returned to writing fiction at age forty and was accepted into the writing program at Johns Hopkins. The Taker is her first novel and is published by Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster. She's not much for writing short stories but has had a few published, most recently in Enhanced Gravity, an anthology of work by Washington DC women writers, published by Paycock Press.
Long bio: Alma Katsu is a writer living in the Washington, DC area with her husband, musician Bruce Katsu. She was born in Fairbanks, Alaska but spent most of her childhood in Massachusetts, in the middle of where colonial history was made. She started writing as a stringer for local newspapers while still in high school and continued as a freelance writer through her college years at Brandeis University, where she studied writing with novelist John Irving and children's book author Margaret Rey. She moved to Washington, DC to take a job with the federal government and stopped writing fiction for about twelve years to concentrate on her career. She returned to writing fiction at age forty and was accepted into the writing program at Johns Hopkins. The Taker was one of two novels she worked on while at Hopkins. It took about ten years to get The Taker in its present form. The Taker is being published by Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster in the US, in World English by Century/Random House UK, and translation rights have sold to six countries. When not working on the sequel to The Taker, Alma sometimes hangs out with the Northern Virginia chapter of the Writer's Center. She is a member of International Thriller Writers because they were quite nice to her when she was going through a thriller-writing phase, and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
